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Urgent call to celebrate May Day in solidarity with Venezuela

Come see the real “threat” posed by Venezuela—as living proof that another world indeed is possible.

Hugo Chavez’s deputy wins Venezuelan presidential elections | The London Evening Post WO

Maduro is re-elected in a show of popular resistance

The May 20, 2018 elections in Venezuela were a victory for the popular sectors and a defeat for the U.S. backed opposition, the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD).

People celebrate Constituent Assembly in Caracas

Farooque Chowdhury, Rosana Silva, and William Camacaro

The political struggle of the people in Venezuela is now passing a crucial phase. Expressing solidarity with the Venezuelan people is a task in this hour of their struggle.

Monthly Review Essays

Marx in the museum Andy Merrifield
One of Marx’s brightest concepts, perhaps his profoundest dialectical construct in Capital, is the “fetishism of commodities.” It emphasizes something very important about the foggy world of appearances and how can forget what lies within, behind what is immediately apparent. We can read it as a parable in which Marx tries to bring to life (and light) the “secret” of the ostensibly trivial commodity, the genie that exists within the magic bottle.
“Down with the Rebels Against the Bill of Sale!”: Guy Endore’s radical reimagining of Haiti and revolution Joseph G. Ramsey
The American occupation of Haiti lasted from 1915–34. The U.S. subjected Haitians to the hated forced labor system of the corvée, seized control over Haitian finance, and rewrote the Haitian Constitution at gunpoint, enabling foreign companies to acquire land in the country. The distorting and oppressive impacts of the U.S. occupation have been felt in Haitian society ever since.

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